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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I meant that the Romulan Star Empire as it stood in the 2260s, during TOS, consisted of just a single star system. The TNG Star Empire is a different matter, since we have heard of at least two other star systems within (the Iconian system in "Contagion" and the Nelvana or something like that in "Defector"). After all, "Balance of Terror" does define the RNZ as a zone that "separates the planets Romulus and Remus from the rest of the galaxy", as the quote goes. And in that episode, a Romulan ship zips between outposts seen on that map using an impulse drive (although there is nothing to say the ship couldn't have had a warp drive aboard, and simply would not have turned it on). Most explicitly, the ship proceeds from the last outpost it destroys to the RNZ using only impulse engines (the Enterprise tracks the ship and predicts her course by assuming an impulse drive, and since they do not lose their prey, she must be moving at impulse as assumed). If the map is even roughly to scale, then this last bit of info means that the said scale is really small, and we could be looking at a single system. Assuming the "empire" consisting of a single system (at least after the war which they lost) lies sufficiently close to Earth or Vulcan, say, 25-50 ly, then cloaked sublight ships could easily reach Earth or Vulcan. Even uncloaked ships could have been a threat back in the 2150s when sensor ranges were short and starships few. And after TOS, an "empire" with cloaks and Klingon-borrowed warpships would be a threat indeed, regardless of whether it had one planet or one hundred. We have seen how costly it is to attack a star system in DS9. If the Romulans have fortified theirs sufficiently by the time of TOS, they could lay waste to the nearby Earth from this invulnerable base. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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